Kristen R. Ghodsee's Blog

I've been flea market shopping in the former east of Berlin, and I am now the proud owner of about 90 copies of Das Magazine from the1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. These monthly issues were the rough equivalent of the New Yorker mixed with Playboy in the GDR. It cost me a fortune to post them back to the United States, but hopefully they will offer a nice glimpse into life under state socialism.